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उल्टा :: Upside down trivia

He comes home late from school; there isn't much happening
there anyway. Everything seems very trivial to him; the conversations, the
dreams and yes those silly conversations. He often accompanies his parents to
dinners and those at times pointless gatherings; there again it’s the same
story. What happened in the stock market
and who suffered from eating street food or who is the most eligible candidate
for an upcoming election. Everything was more or less pointless to him.

He wanted to flip the world; to go on a different planet for
sometime. See how the world of different people was; what were their
conversations all about, what did they want to be.

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But this little boy had another side to him; a side only he knew
of. This world had the same people, same conversations, birds and clouds. But they
all looked different. Just the way he wanted them to be.

He could stare at them without speaking a word. The faces
looked funny; with mustaches on the top and eyes at the bottom, hands up in
the air and head floating nowhere. He liked it, he laughed at it, thought about
it and forgot about it.

It was all his own, and that’s why he visited that world very
often.

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It’s the warmest feeling to come back to my sacred space; I
was never gone though, but just had too much on my platter. In the last several
months I got many emails from people who have been seeing me here that they
miss our conversations so now I hope I keep at it and yes see you soon.

If you are tired with the mundane chores in the middle of
the week, look at the world upside-down and laugh at what you just did.

Traveling alone since I was sixteen; from the then deserted pathways of Auroville to teaching monks at a monastery in Dharamsala, from cooking for strangers in Morocco to make a living to finding my family roots in the mystical land of Benares; little did I know that a timid little boy who was brought up in an unconventional milieu would someday articulate his thoughts through visuals that would speak his mind.